Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, but I ordered a refurbished ASUS laptop from newegg and it arrived broken this week too, didn't ship with any kind of bubblewrap or anything either... first thing I've received broken from newegg ever, but got RMA'ing is such a pain in the ass, my issue wasn't as obvious, the video card could not perform any kind of acceleration, so no games were playable and youtube would cause it to crash, but it actually booted to the desktop no problem.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tem=34-314-074
I bought
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...FapAMgodPT8ANQwhen it was on sale for 220, and absolutely love it. Based on the reviews, seems like it's built quite a bit better than the ACER, I don't own the Acer, but I could see having a sturdy well constructed metal case / keyboard / battery being worth an extra 50
Titan_Atlas
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Hilarious you posted that i bought the Samsung one same day i posted and after a few days it's great. Exactly what i wanted, though i'm still getting used to no mouse and don't know how to save pics.
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jeydax
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That would be me good sir, and yes Ninite fucking rocks.
PS if you are looking for Flash updaters from Ninite just PM me. I have copies of them
Note for people who don't know, you can use the download from Ninite to update the programs as well. I had a tech savvy friend who didn't know this but you just rerun it once a week and it'll update everything for you. Also note utorrent is a fucking pain lately with how often they update.
jeydax
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Speaking of things that fucking rock, do you guys have any suggestions for a $500-600~ laptop that has a Haswell CPU running it? This would mainly be used to do spreadsheet and Word processing at work but I'd also like it to be able to play WoW and LoL at medium settings well and CS:GO on at least low settings.
Thoughts? I'm just starting to look now but figured I'd snag ya'lls opinion too as you seem to be more on the up and up when it comes to laptops.
Thoughts? I'm just starting to look now but figured I'd snag ya'lls opinion too as you seem to be more on the up and up when it comes to laptops.
Joeboo
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Here is the *only* Laptop on Newegg that has a Haswell CPU that is less than $800 in price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834314150
It's a pain in the ass to search for them, you basically can't search by CPU generation, so you have to do an advanced search by GPU, the Intel HD 4400, 4600, and 5000 GPUs are all integrated Haswell GPUs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834314150
It's a pain in the ass to search for them, you basically can't search by CPU generation, so you have to do an advanced search by GPU, the Intel HD 4400, 4600, and 5000 GPUs are all integrated Haswell GPUs
jeydax
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Christ you beat me to the punch, I just did that exact search and I damn near gave up because of how stupid it was.
So scratch that idea, obviously that laptop wouldn't be anyone's top choice (just guessing seeing as that is the only one that fits my parameters). How about up to $750? Going back through the thread really kicking myself for missing that Y510P deal on SlickDeals a short while back. That machine is nice, holy shit!
So scratch that idea, obviously that laptop wouldn't be anyone's top choice (just guessing seeing as that is the only one that fits my parameters). How about up to $750? Going back through the thread really kicking myself for missing that Y510P deal on SlickDeals a short while back. That machine is nice, holy shit!
Asshat wormie
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Yea I never did give a real review on the y510p I got. Bullet points:
-1080p screen is awesome, esp compared to my 1330x7xx old laptop
-Matte screen (from lenovo.com) is nice. Actually nicer than glossy imo
-After lots of headaches from various modifications (installing ssd/win7/buying caddy for old hdd to replace DVD drive, buying DVD external case, the trackpad is a piece of shit until you mod it), things are up and running great. Boot time from shutdown is <10 seconds, usually ~5 seconds. It demolishes PoE, Bioshock Infinite (medium settings). Trackpad is great once you go to semantic's website and install new drivers over the ones that come with. Set dead zone on pad so buttons don't move the mouse. The only negative is that when you hold ctrl (like to ctrl+click a link to open a new tab), the dead zone disappears for some reason. Ctrl+clicking is useless.
-It's probably too big to take to classes. I'll confirm/deny next week, but almost undoubtedly too big. It's the 15.6 size, not the weight. It's not that heavy or even thick. I'll probably use my 13.3 old laptop and dropbox for class notes. It will, however, be fine for office use where I'll do most of my writing.
-Battery life is shit. My old laptop is designed for battery life with an 8 cell and hybrid graphics. 8+ hours real world unless watching a movie. This one is 3 if it's lucky, but usually 2. Why don't laptops use 8 cell batteries? My 13.3 ultrathin UL30VT can, why can't a 15.6?
-It gets hot during heavy gaming, even with a laptop riser w/ fan below it.
-Holy shit 1080 resolution makes everything tiny & I can see everything.
-1080p screen is awesome, esp compared to my 1330x7xx old laptop
-Matte screen (from lenovo.com) is nice. Actually nicer than glossy imo
-After lots of headaches from various modifications (installing ssd/win7/buying caddy for old hdd to replace DVD drive, buying DVD external case, the trackpad is a piece of shit until you mod it), things are up and running great. Boot time from shutdown is <10 seconds, usually ~5 seconds. It demolishes PoE, Bioshock Infinite (medium settings). Trackpad is great once you go to semantic's website and install new drivers over the ones that come with. Set dead zone on pad so buttons don't move the mouse. The only negative is that when you hold ctrl (like to ctrl+click a link to open a new tab), the dead zone disappears for some reason. Ctrl+clicking is useless.
-It's probably too big to take to classes. I'll confirm/deny next week, but almost undoubtedly too big. It's the 15.6 size, not the weight. It's not that heavy or even thick. I'll probably use my 13.3 old laptop and dropbox for class notes. It will, however, be fine for office use where I'll do most of my writing.
-Battery life is shit. My old laptop is designed for battery life with an 8 cell and hybrid graphics. 8+ hours real world unless watching a movie. This one is 3 if it's lucky, but usually 2. Why don't laptops use 8 cell batteries? My 13.3 ultrathin UL30VT can, why can't a 15.6?
-It gets hot during heavy gaming, even with a laptop riser w/ fan below it.
-Holy shit 1080 resolution makes everything tiny & I can see everything.
brekk
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You did it wrong. Shoulda bought an mSata SSD, could've installed it along side HDD in its current location, and left DVD in.
How is your optimus configured? My Sandybridge based Y470 get 4-6 hours websurfing, and watching movies. Games will push it down to 1-1.5hrs. Your system with Haswell should get really good battery life, far better then mine. I wouldn't rely on the automatic game detection. Set the video card to be off unless certain .exe's are running. Then add all your game .exe's to that list. If you play Minecraft or other Java based games you also need to add the Java .exe for them to get full acceleration.
External dvd adapter:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00274HQY0/
HDD caddy:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XIUQYA/
The dvd external adaptor is quite cheap and flimsy, but it does the job. I tend to think paying like $15 more and getting a real external DVD/RW that's better built would be better.
The HDD caddy is great. It's a little tricky getting the plastic bits off the DVD drive & onto the caddy (so it fits & locks as it should), but it functions great, and the DVD face plate fits perfectly on the caddy, so the laptop doesn't suffer any aesthetic problems.
I'm continuing to encounter stupid problems and knocking them out. The most recent one is my tiny travel mouse won't plug & play. Windows "can't find driver." It's a god damn mouse, what the fuck. I can't even find a driver online, so the mouse is now useless. Other than that, I'm loving the laptop now. The trackpad is great, with the one downside being that holding ctrl will make the "dead zone" of the buttons go away. I can't get over how much better the screen is compared to my old laptop. I was transferring files today and the old screen just looks flat out terrible. It looks blurry almost.
Anyone recommend a case to carry it in? Not a bag, just something to protect it when moving. I like the cases all the Apple people have, just a soft cover to provide a little protection.
HDD caddy:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XIUQYA/
The dvd external adaptor is quite cheap and flimsy, but it does the job. I tend to think paying like $15 more and getting a real external DVD/RW that's better built would be better.
The HDD caddy is great. It's a little tricky getting the plastic bits off the DVD drive & onto the caddy (so it fits & locks as it should), but it functions great, and the DVD face plate fits perfectly on the caddy, so the laptop doesn't suffer any aesthetic problems.
I'm continuing to encounter stupid problems and knocking them out. The most recent one is my tiny travel mouse won't plug & play. Windows "can't find driver." It's a god damn mouse, what the fuck. I can't even find a driver online, so the mouse is now useless. Other than that, I'm loving the laptop now. The trackpad is great, with the one downside being that holding ctrl will make the "dead zone" of the buttons go away. I can't get over how much better the screen is compared to my old laptop. I was transferring files today and the old screen just looks flat out terrible. It looks blurry almost.
Anyone recommend a case to carry it in? Not a bag, just something to protect it when moving. I like the cases all the Apple people have, just a soft cover to provide a little protection.
brekk
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Those soft covers provide scratch protection nothing else. You need a laptop bag with a laptop compartment with a foam edge for actual impact protection.
